Introduction
Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah gave practical shape to
the ideology given by Allama Iqbal.
After joining Muslim League in 1913, he continued with his
efforts to bring about Hindu Muslim unity but he was greatly disappointed to
see the prejudicial attitude of the Congress and Hindus towards the Muslims.
Following are some extracts from the speeches and statements which he delivered
from time to time for explaining the ideology of Pakistan.
Address At Second Round Table Conference in 1931
Quaid-e-Azam believed that Congress and Hindus would never
recognize the rights of Muslims. He declared while representing the Muslims in
the second Round Table Conference in 1913:
“The Hindu
Muslim dispute must be settled before the enforcement of any system or
constitution. Until you do not give guarantee for the safeguard of the Muslim
interests, until you do not win their (Muslims) co-operations, any constitution
you enforece shall not last for even 24 hours.”
Quaid-e-Azam and Two Nation Theory
Quaid-e-Azam was a firm advocate of two nation theory
which became the ideological basis of Pakistan. He said:
“The Muslims are a nation by every right to establish their separate homeland. They can adopt any means to promote and protect their economic social, political and cultural interests.”
“The Muslims are a nation by every right to establish their separate homeland. They can adopt any means to promote and protect their economic social, political and cultural interests.”
On 23rd March, 1940 at the historic session of the Muslim
League at Lahore, he said:
“The
Mussalmans are not a minority. They are a nation by any definition. By all
canons of International law we are a nation.”
In his presidential address at the annual session of
Muslim League at Lahore in 1940. He said:
“India is not
a nation, nor a country. It is a Sub Continent of nationalities. Hindus and
Muslims being the two major nations. The Hindus and Muslims belong to two
different religions, philosophies, social customs and literature. They neither
intermarry nor inter dine and they belong to two different civilizations which
are based mainly on conflicting ideas and conceptions. Their aspects on life
and of are different. It is quite clear that Hindus and Muslims derive their
inspiration from different sources of history.”
On March 8, 1944 while addressing the students of Muslim
University, he said:
“Hindus and
Muslims through living in the same town and villages had never been blended
into one nation. They were always two separate entities.”
Quaid-e-Azam and Millat-e-Islamia
He believed that only Islam was the unifying force of the
Muslim Millat. He said:
“What
relationships knits the Muslims into one whole, which is the formidable rock on
which the Muslim edifice has been erected, which is the sheet anchor providing
base to the Muslim Millat, the relationship, the sheet anchor and the rock is
Holy Quran.”
Address At Islamia College Peshawar
In 1946, at Islamia College Quaid-e-Azam declared:
“We do not
demand Pakistan simply to have a piece of land but we want a laboratory where
we could experiment on Islamic principles.”
Address on 18th June 1945
In his message to the Frontier Muslim Students Federation,
he said:
“Pakistan not
only means freedom and independence but Muslim ideology, which has to be
preserved which came to us as a precious gift and treasure and which we hope,
other will share with us.”
Conclusion
The above sayings and statements largely prove that
Quaid-e-Azam wanted to establish an Islamic system as a code of life because he
believed that it was the sole objective of the Pakistan Movement.
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